Before the "Knight's Tale" : : Imitation of Classical Epic in Boccaccio's "Teseida" / / David Anderson.
The focus of Before the Knight's Tale is the transformation of Statius's Thebaid into Boccaccio's Teseida and Chaucer's subsequent reshaping of this rich literary tradition in the Knight's Tale. David Anderson examines Boccaccio's imitative art in its historical context...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©1988 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) :; 4 illus. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Imitation of the Main Action -- 2. The Alternate Ending -- 3. Boccaccio’s Model of Epic Narrative -- 4. Imitation of the Thebaid in the Knight’s Tale -- Appendixes -- Indexes |
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Summary: | The focus of Before the Knight's Tale is the transformation of Statius's Thebaid into Boccaccio's Teseida and Chaucer's subsequent reshaping of this rich literary tradition in the Knight's Tale. David Anderson examines Boccaccio's imitative art in its historical context, defining his model of classical epic and his imitative strategy in the Teseida. Two medieval prologues to the Thebaid, with a series of Boccaccio's own glosses on a passage in Thebaid 7, are made available for the first time in the appendixes. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781512800067 9783110442526 |
DOI: | 10.9783/9781512800067 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Anderson. |